Abstract
0px; > The objectives of this research are to understand the country’s hegemony in the Kompas short stories compilation, Dua Kelamin bagi Midin, and the impacts of country’s hegemony in it. This research uses a dialectic method. This method has been used to analyse six short stories in the short stories compilation through social contextual aspects. This research uses Gramsci’s hegemony theory which emphasizes the importance of idea in social politics control and critical discourse analysis to analyze text intensively through historical context. Short stories have a unique position in its corelation to the country’s intervention in literatures. Short stories become a part of mass media or newspaper hegemonied by a country. On that position, short stories have some benefits and they are not hegemonied directly by a country. Short stories hegemony helps mass media to balance news dealing with some mass media which get pressure from country. The six analyzed short stories prove that there is ideological plurality and complexity built in the characters relationships in the stories. It shows that there are social criticisms to the country. Keywords : hegemony, short story, Kompas, ideology
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